well i have to give credit where credit is due.
it was the part of today's symposium - build a house that will endure.
the part i was most impressed with was 'safeguard your children from "what is evil".
I am seeing more and more that the org is more reactive than proactive. A lot of times, when there's some change, important article, etc., it's because the org is reacting to something that affects it.
And even then, it's only after 20 years have gone by.
sorry if this has been mentioned already.. https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/by-region/russia/hearing-bible-extremist-20170727/.
kind of misleading headline.
it's the nwt version they want to label as extremist not the bible itself.. for those that don't want to go to that obnoxious website, here is the text.... russia moves to declare the bible “extremist”.
falsely claim that the text was altered to fit the Witnesses’ doctrine.
This should be interesting.
i live in nyc and dad jw called me crying about a hall that has about 500 jws going down to 2 congs
a hall that has about 500 jws going down to 2 congs
500 or 50 ?
hi all,i've been doing some research on blood transfusions and fractions.
i found out a patient can donate their own blood, so it can be used for elective surgery...i was wondering if theirs really any difference between a blood transfusion of your own blood and the blood salvage procedure.
i think quite similar since its just a re-transfusion of your own blood.. what are your thoughts?
Yes, there is a big difference.
The elders with a financial interest in the distribution of blood-salvage equipment make no money in autologous transfusions.
someone sent this link of kelso law firm and their blog post on cardinal pell being australia's most hated man.
the implications are very interesting, as this is the 3rd most powerful man in the vatican.
the catholic church is no doubt much larger than jehovah's witnesses, however, the jw's incidence of child sexual abuse is about 4 times higher than the catholic church's child sex abuse (and subsequent coverups).. the main thread tying cardinal pell and the other vatican scandals to jehovah's witnesses is the australian royal commission.
Based on the Australia numbers, one could project the following:
Australia 68,000 publishers - 1006 perpetrators - 1830 victims
Globally 8,000,000 pubs - 118,000 perpetrators - 215,000 victims
If you had kids in a religion this relatively small, that would scare the shit out of me.
so today the well-respected and serious newspaper trouw.nl came with child abuse within the jw as their topmost frontpage article.. the articles are well researched and aim primarily at the dutch jw situation.. afaik at least on member of this forum assisted the newspaper with the articles.
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other media are picking up as well.....
one of the highest ranking JW elders ever to serve in Australia at the Watchtower headquarters.
Is he still alive?
i've noticed that some elders will insist on getting a special bethel speaker for memorials, special talks, or sometimes for no reason at all!
i believe they are trying build connections they can use later, but who pays for it?
the congregation does and as a former account servant i can tell you airfare isn't all that cheap.
Our congo had a Bethelite move in, and he recently became COBE.
Naturally, he gives talks at the SAD and at the RC.
He is horrible.
hey everyone, long time lurker, first time poster.
i'm currently in a jehovah's witnesses household, which is very deep into the "truth".
i woke up a few months ago, and i haven't told my parents yet.
this guy has to have the most courage of anyone i've ever seen or balls the size of basketballs.he actually gives a good talk and has tidbits scattered about throughout his public talk with hints,suggestions,innuendos of the wt organization.i never want to go in another kingdom hall again in my life but would have made an exception just to be in this audience.
lolnotice what's going on in the audience when they realize somethings up.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqqt0y1peuu.
This is the best ever.
No WT bashing - it he had not said 'at all levels in the org' he probably could have done the full 30 minutes.
No matter, that audience must not know what to think.
the conversation soon got to spiritual subjects, this elder is company man all through and side kick well he's learning the ropes.
bang mentioned snake antivenin, blood factions, then big geoffrey jackson saying presumptuous, then vin toole in the arc saying he had never heard of theocratic warfare.
then told how god made exceptions to the rules on blood when soldiers ate unbled meat.
your in big shit for an adult after 2 1/2 hours , children can die in an hour, adults 3, horses 6. We have a worse snake up north in Queensland called a Taipan, adults 1 hour nuked.
What do you think? Did the fangs and lethal venom of these snakes evolve? Or were they designed?
